Summer Recap
The highlight of 2005 was spending much of July in North Yukon following the Porcupine caribou herd. Though we were weathered in at Inuvik for over a week, the wait was well worth it. We were thrilled to return to the British and Richardson Mountains to spend more time watching this incredible landscape event. For several days, we were in the midst of tens of thousands of cows, calves and bulls on their southward trek back to the boreal forests of central Yukon. Meanwhile, the U.S. is still pushing forward its foolhardy agenda to permit industrial activity in the herd's Alaskan calving areas. Please take action on this issue - see these websites for info, resources and more links: Being Caribou, Taiga.net and Caribou Commons.

As much as our housebuilding project is exciting, it meant that our activities this year were somewhat limited. From a lost month in June due to an unexpected move, to an intensive 6-week training opportunity in the fall, Fritz has spent less time in the field and more time focusing on other aspects of photography.

Other News
Around the time that we returned from this year's journey to the Richardson Mountains, we heard that Fritz's aerial photograph of the Richardsons and the tundra cloaked in scarlet was singled out by the 2005 Nature's Best International Photography Awards in the U.S. This spectacular region is deserving of the attention.

This year, the Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon and Tourism Yukon both selected Fritz's sweeping Three Rivers panorama to anchor several major campaigns, and this image was also selected for the cover of Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing) to be released in October 2005. The Three Rivers poster is available online in our Collection.